Vincenzo Fiorentini  (Padova, Italy, 1960) is associate professor of condensed matter physics at Cagliari University and the Director of SLACS, the Sardinian Laboratory for computational materials science. He is the proud father of two terrific girls, Isabella, 13, and Beatrice, 10, and with his third special girl, physicist Paola Alippi, of muscular 2-years-old Giovanni, formerly known as "il Girino" (the tadpole). See Giovanni's photos here on Flickr.

Currently he is devoting most of his time to his offsprings, trying to keep up with the work with his research group at SLACS, with two major EU projects and one from IIT starting up. He ineffectually attempts to loose weight, reads and listen to music as much as he can, and has fun with his Mac and iPod. He recently bought a 16-keys clarinet with serious intentions, but so far he hasn't really taken on study seriously. VF has a brother in the business of nautical books, charts, and equipment at MarediCarta library in Venice;  one sister is a science historian at the Freie Universitaet Berlin; the other sister is a musician and free-lance landscape geographer based in north-eastern Italy.

VF received the laurea in Physics in 1987 at University of Trieste, Italy, with a thesis on double acceptor spectra in Ge with prof. A. Baldereschi. Thereafter, he spent over a year in the group of J. Schneider at the Fraunhofer Institut fuer Angewandte Festkoerperphysik working on acceptor and quantum-well detector spectra. He then moved back to Trieste to work on a Ph.D. thesis on corrections to spectral properties in density functional theory until Oct 1991. After that, following a short stay at Cagliari University, he spent 18 months in the group of M. Scheffler at the Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, working on GaN, transition metal surfaces, and Ag surfactant assisted growth. Meanwhile he was appointed assistant professor at Cagliari University, whereto he moved in October 1993. In January 2001 he was named associate professor at the University of Messina, and thereafter appointed a solid state physics associate professorship at Cagliari University.  He has been (2004-08) the Director of the Sardinian Laboratory for computational materials science (SLACS), a research unit of the National Research Council.

He has worked extensively in the physics and materials science of defects, interfaces, surfaces, and bulk properties of semiconductors, insulators, and metals, under the funding of several agencies including Regione Sardegna, University of Cagliari, INFM, CNR, the UE, and MURST/MIUR. He has received Humboldt scholarship which he spent in 1998-2000 at the Walter Schottky Institut in Munich. He also spent 6 months at Philips Research at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium as a Marie Curie invited professor. He has on record ~90 publications on refereed international journals, ~25 articles on books and proceedings,  ~40 invited talks at international conferences and ~4000 citation hits, with a Hirsch h index of 28. He has been a scientific advisor for INFM, the Max-Planck Gesellschaft, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Research, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Semiconductor Division of the National Institute for Condensed Matter Physics. He is a member of several conference program committees, and a referee for Nature, PRL, PRB, APL, Surface Science. He teaches Computational Physics and Solid State Physics. He has been co-organizing the Computational Materials Science Workshops and Euroconferences (1994-2006).

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